Best Money Moves

JUNE 1, 2022

Health care costs can often drag behind increases in consumer prices, so employees may face an increase in costs that will last throughout this year and next. According to the Kaiser Family Foundation, 46% of employees reported that they have less than $1,000 in out-of-pocket costs for any unexpected hospital/doctor visit.

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InterWest Insurance Services

AUGUST 22, 2023

Going out of network is discouraged with high out-of-pocket costs. Preferred provider organizations – PPOs contract with hospital and provider networks to help control costs. While they will cover services outside of the network, the cost is higher than going in-network.

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InterWest Insurance Services

JUNE 16, 2022

But for many people the narrow network may not include their personal doctor and hospital that they are accustomed to going to. There is no limit if your employee goes out of network. These plans are not for everyone. For someone who may not use their health insurance much, a narrow network could be ideal.

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Genesis HR Solutions

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

It covers things including hospital and doctor visits, surgeries, and prescriptions. Hospital Insurance. Hospital insurance is health insurance for hospital costs. Accident insurance helps employees pay for the medical and out-of-pocket costs that you may incur after an accidental injury.

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InterWest Insurance Services

JULY 6, 2023

More and more insurers are expanding the use of telemedicine, just as a new study shows promising cost savings of up to 25% from virtual care when implemented properly. Average per-visit costs in the telemedicine program were $380, compared to $439 for in-person primary care offices, emergency departments or urgent care clinics costs.

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Higginbotham

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Cost Sharing in Insurance Although insurance companies take responsibility for many of the costs that arise, policyholders are also responsible for some out-of-pocket costs on top of the premium. This is called cost sharing, and it’s common in many types of insurance. What about the out-of-pocket maximum?

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HR Digest

MARCH 24, 2023

Reducing out-of-pocket cost-sharing for insulin does mean payers and insurers may be covering a greater share of the costs. However, some of those costs may be offset by increased medication adherence and reduced hospitalization rates, which would end up saving payers money in the long run.

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Benefit Resource Inc.

JUNE 6, 2019

If needed, our pre-tax health account would cover additional diagnostic tests, as well as hospital services, lab fees, and mastectomy-related special bras. In the mean time, it is a comfort to know that our HSA is there to cover any unexpected out-of-pocket costs. What to do next.

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WEX Inc.

APRIL 25, 2024

The remaining portion, known as coinsurance, becomes your responsibility until you reach your out-of-pocket maximum. This can include: Basic medical services Hospital visits Emergency services Mental health services And more Key features of HDHPs High deductibles As the name suggests, HDHPs come with a high deductible.

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Insperity

MAY 13, 2015

HDHPs are health insurance plans with lower premiums and higher deductibles and out-of-pocket maximums than traditional health plans. Yet, many first-time group health insurance buyers shy away from these plans and opt to offer a low deductible plan because it minimizes out-of-pocket costs for their employees.

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Flimp Communications

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

The percentile-of-use model runs type-of-service data against the plan-design details to project both premiums and total expected out-of-pocket costs. Voluntary insurance, including life, disability, hospital and cancer coverage, are becoming increasingly important to employees.

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Corporate Synergies

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

Patient financial responsibility is on the rise—average out-of-pocket costs rose 11% in 2017 alone. 1 Many of them are still learning how to choose the right benefits each year so they get the coverage they need without overpaying or getting stuck with unexpected costs. Help employees review provider bills carefully.

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CorpStrat

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Some common add-ons include critical illness insurance, maternity and newborn baby insurance, hospital daily expenses and emergency ambulance services. While that may seem advantageous in the short term, you’ll be on the hook for out-of-pocket costs when facing a medical emergency.

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HR Professionals Magazine

JUNE 28, 2023

It is not the PBM formulary alone, nor is it providers or hospitals. Insulin prices have increased 600 percent over the last 20 years causing many consumers to be at risk of non-adherence due to cost. Ninety percent of the nation’s $3.5 trillion in annual health care expenditures are for chronic and mental health conditions.

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InterWest Insurance Services

MAY 9, 2022

But for employees in your group health plan, they have many options for obtaining a test with no out-of-pocket costs. Under an executive order issued by President Biden, employees in a group health plan are eligible to receive COVID-19 at-home test kits with no cost-sharing, copay, coinsurance or deductible.

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Griffin Benefits

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

It isn’t a secret that medical care is expensive, and many out-of-pocket costs under health plans have increased. The KFF Health Care Debt Survey finds that 41% of adults currently have some debt caused by medical or dental bills, many of which were one-time, unexpected costs. THE RISE OF MEDICAL DEBT.

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InterWest Insurance Services

APRIL 24, 2024

Plans might pay $200 upon hospital admission, for example, or $100 per day while a person is hospitalized to help with out-of-pocket costs. Other plans pay a pre-determined amount on a per-period or per-incident basis, regardless of the total charges incurred.

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Best Money Moves

MARCH 27, 2020

It’s difficult to estimate how much you might owe for Coronavirus/COVID-19 treatment if you were to test positive and were admitted to a hospital, but a rough estimate in The New York Times found that the total cost could be over $20,000 — with an individual’s out-of-pocket costs running around $1,300.

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Benefit Resource Inc.

JULY 11, 2019

President Trump recently issued an Executive Order, Improving Price and Quality Transparency in American Health to Put Patients First, which focuses on price transparency by requiring out-of-pocket costs to be listed by hospitals and other providers. Hospitals must also develop a system to update the list regularly.

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Asure Software

AUGUST 8, 2016

Along with health plan costs, consumers often look at which doctors and hospitals are available in their networks. Kaiser Health News notes, “ That’s important because once a patient hits that out-of-pocket maximum, the insurer is responsible for all in-network medical costs for the rest of the year.” .

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